Well at least they don't have any yellowcake.
Oh wait. They never did.
ISIS and the current problems in Iraq are direct results of the Cheney/Bush administration's push into Iraq. (and no, I do not have those names in the wrong order).
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Undeniably the events in Iraq is a tragedy for Iraqi people. It seems that the cruel situation heap suffering on people who have already suffered enough. What on earth is going on in a country, while sits on the world's second black gold reserve. Its people are hungry and unemployed and want to see swift actions to end the savage corruption in the country. Meanwhile, health and basic services hardly exists. It does give us a narrative that previously, Iraq had one dictator, Saddam, but now though, Iraqi people suffers from hundreds of little tin pot dictators all over.
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I sure hope the authorities in the U.S. and Europe don't hold the Iraqi government to a lower standard than the one to which they hold the government of Hong Kong for how a government is supposed to respond to violent protests.
Iraqi lives matter, too.
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@William Verick , I think you will need to talk to Iran if you want to influence the current Iraqi government's riot control SOPs.
@William Verick
It is interesting how it's front page news in every major US newspaper for days when the Hong Kong police non-fatally shoot one protestor after four months of protests, but no one cares when Iraqi police shoot and kill dozens.
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Eventually, it all blows up. But that has been the case since the country’s origin.
The only difference between iraq and Afghanistan is location on the planet.
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Saddam, you could have been a contender!
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Other media sources are reporting the same story, but adding the fact that the Iraqi government is blaming Israel and the USA for the unrest.
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I recently vacationed in Morocco, and while not Iraq, it was a great reminder of the fact that the US press does a terrible job informing the public of the human stories underneath these tragic events. I was wholly embraced by all that I talked to, by many who were highly curious about my humanity and culture. Although I am careful to avoid travel to more unstable regions, I am always embraced by curious others in most regions that I travel. We are all humans in the end. These countries and cross-border cultures have wonderfully rich histories, and played a significant role in preserving civilization while Europe was in the Dark Ages. The historical context should always be highlighted in these articles, as many in our country know nothing about these peoples and places. Please enlighten instead of frighten us.
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@GM, why does an article trying to educate the reader on the role corruption in producing deadly protests need us to recognize that Europe was not always the home of high living standards or mass culture. I understand that there is this a trend in academic and media circles that sees every issue as coming down to white European ethnicity versus the other 5 billion on this earth, but can Iraqis simply find their own route to good governance and prosperity without turning it in to a ethnic/ cultural debate. Iraqi lives matter too, and not just as the foil for cultural insecurities in the US.
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@GM ... not sure how this comment is relevant to the protests in Iraq. What point is trying to be made?
The region’s history is incredibly rich. I simply wonder why this and similar articles frame the Middle East so narrowly.